James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
Maxwell's equations, electricity, magnetism, mathematical physics, mathematician and theoretical physicist, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution…EdinburghAcademical, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, From Edinburgh
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Tam Dalyell

Tam Dalyell

male, 77 years old
EdinburghAcademical, Drylaw, Alumni of King's College, Cambridge, Anglo-Scot, King's College, Cambridge, IPA chart for English…Lord Rectors of the University of Edinburgh
Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (born August 9, 1932), known as Tam Dalyell, is a Scottish politician and was a Labour member of the...
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

male, deceased (1894)
Scottish historical novelist, British non-fiction outdoors writer, from Napa County, California, islomaniac, death by cerebral hemorrhage, From Edinburgh…EdinburghAcademical, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English...
Peter Guthrie Tait

Peter Guthrie Tait

male, deceased (1901)
physicist, mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scottish, EdinburghAcademical, Treatise on Natural Philosophy…Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh University
Peter Guthrie Tait (April 28, 1831 - July 4, 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook...
Nicky Campbell

Nicky Campbell

male, 48 years old
Nicholas Lackey, Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell, Radio City DJ, BBC Radio 1 DJ, British radio DJ, Alumni of the University of Aberdeen…From Edinburgh, EdinburghAcademical
Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell (born Nicholas Lackey April 10 1961) is a radio and television presenter.
Iain Torrance

Iain Torrance

male, 60 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
British, Calvinist ministers and theologian, calvinist, Recipient of the Territorial Decoration, From Aberdeen, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh…EdinburghAcademical
The Very Reverend Iain Torrance, is President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of...

Paul Jones

male, 67 years old
White Cloud, Blues harmonica player, solo, From Portsmouth, rhythm and blues, Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford…EdinburghAcademical
Paul Jones (born Paul Pond, 24 February 1942, in Portsmouth, England) is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, and radio and television...
Fleeming Jenkin

Fleeming Jenkin

male, deceased (1885)
professor, actor, tory, Scholar, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Business Person…Academic of the University of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, university of edinburgh, EdinburghAcademical
Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (March 25 1833 - June 12 1885) was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his...

Leslie Balfour-Melville

male, deceased (1937)
tennis player, curler, Scottish, EdinburghAcademical, Scottish Sports Hall of Fame, athlete…From Edinburgh, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Leslie Melville Balfour-Melville (1854-1937) was an outstanding all-round Scottish amateur sportsman, who was known at the time as 'the WG Grace of...
James Hector

James Hector

male, deceased (1907)
Doctor, Geologist, Scottish, Naturalist, university of edinburgh, packhorse…EdinburghAcademical, From Edinburgh, Edinburgh Academy, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Sir James Hector (March 16, 1834-November 06, 1907) was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a...